Springfield First Church of the Nazarene Podcast

When we live with the awareness that God Himself is with us wherever we go, we can be defined by strength and courage rather than fear and dismay.

The God who created and sustains the heavens by His great power and mighty strength imparts that power and strength to those who hope in Him.

In what is one of the most majestic paradoxes of the Christian faith, the strength of Christ is most perfectly manifest in the midst of our weaknesses.

Among other things, the apostle Paul prayed that the strength of God would be evident in the lives of those who were devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

There is a divine strength promised and revealed in the lives of those who find their identity in the One who is the source of all strength.

As we prepare to celebrate the 235th birthday of the United States of America this 4th of July, our special guest speaker is Ron Snyder of Wings of an Eagle Ministry in Eugene. Ron is also the Oregon state coordinator for Christian Heritage Ministries based in Washington D.C. We welcome our friend Ron to Springfield Church as he talks to us about "The Foundation Stones of America.".

Our speaker for the morning is our new youth leader Lori Sutton. She is currently studying for the ministry at Nazarene Bible College working toward being ordained as an associate pastor in the Church of the Nazarene. Lori will be sharing with us how God has brought her and her family to this point in her journey as well as her vision of reaching out to the young people of our community with the love of Jesus Christ.

The media recently has had no shortage of coverage of high profile men behaving badly. God is still calling men who will rise above the normalcy of sin to pursue righteousness and godliness.

The extraordinary event of Pentecost was that it empowered for holiness ordinary people, in an ordinary setting, who were doing nothing out of the ordinary other than offering themselves completely to God.

The pursuit of holiness involves putting away an old way of life that reaped sin and indulgence in exchange for the new life in Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit that leads to the fullness of eternal life.